Most people dont no this but I am a HUGE MICKEY MOUSE fan!!
Like no other twentieth-century motion-picture character...Mickey possessed the world's imagination. Mickey was all heart, but the beginning he did not wear it on his sleeve.
Mickey's vagueness as a character became an asset-a source of his popularity. However difficult he might be to discribe, he was undeniably an active, positive character, and this was very important at a time when the world was sliding into the worst days of the Great Depression. Audiences could read into him an optimistic affirmation of their own values.
Mickey Mouse was born in Walt Disney's imagination early in 1928 on a train ride from New York to Los Angeles.
Disney had this mouse in the back of his head. A mouse is sort of a sympathetic character in spite of the fact that everybody's frightened of a mouse" Walt spent the return train ride conjuring up a little mouse in red velvet pants and named him "Mortimer," but by the time the train screeched into the terminal station in Los Angeles, the new dream mouse had been rechristened. Walt's wife, Lillian, thought the name "Mortimer" was too pompous and suggested "Mickey." A star was born!
Walt and his head animator, Ub Iwerks, immediately began work on the first Mickey Mouse cartoon, Plane Crazy. The enthusiasm faded when no distributor wanted to buy the film.
Refusing to give in, Walt forged into production on another silent Mickey Mouse cartoon, Gallopin'Gaucho. However, late in 1927, Warner Brothers ushered in the talkies with The Jazz Singer, staffing Al Jolson. This soon signaled the end of silent films so, in 1928, Walt dropped everything to begin a third Mickey Mouse cartoon, this one in sound: Steamboat Willie.
